1986, K. Bailey, Human Paleopsychology: Applications To Aggression and Patholoqical Processes, page 78
A first step in developing such a miltidisciplinary, integrative formulation would be to view regression as a general process of primitivization, dissolution, hierarchial disintegration, and so on, which involves both phylogenetic and ontogenetic components.
1990, Richard Cohen, Peter A. Wilson, Superpowers in economic decline: U.S. strategy for the transcentury era, page 74
Nonetheless, even before the end of 1988 it appeared that the Gorbachev initiative to reverse the process of primitivization had weakened.
1997, Marvin Cohodas, Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox, page 50,
Besides masking its hierarchically organized inequalities and exploitations, the primitivization of the household legitimated similar relations of inequality in arenas of ethnicity and class--"tribe" being merely family writ large and racially or ethnically "othered."
